RE: Selecting First Letter

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Subject: RE: Selecting First Letter
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 18:38:31 -0400

Jeff,

This suggestion of Mike's is the one I like best so far:
At 06:06 PM 9/30/2003, he wrote:

(a) in the above template, do something to test whether it's one of the
text nodes you want to treat this way, e.g. by testing whether
<xsl:number level="any" from="p"> is 1

If you did <xsl:number level="any" from="content" count="text()[normalize-space()]"/> and only handled number 1, you'd work around the whitespace problem Dimitre cited without having to strip whitespace-only nodes (always a dangerous thing in running prose). (Note I've tweaked the from attribute to be "content" since that seems to be the scope you are interested in.)

Of course, you'll do this in a choose/when/otherwise test, not in the template match as I had it.

or (b) in the template rule for the <p> element, process the descendants
with a parameter set to the generate-id() of the first descendant text
node, and test this parameter in the text template.

That works too.

Ain't this list amazing?

Cheers,
Wendell


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